710 Quotes About Historical

I win the battles with the dreams of my soldiers," he would say. The content of those dreams was myriad, and evolved over time...

Oh, how glorious it must be, to care nothing for society’s censure, but how terrible it must be, to care for nothing at all.

Jack Broughton was a fighter, the father of boxing. He had a fondness for flowers and his sister named Rose. He knew many names of flowers and many varieties of rose.There is no sweeter beauty, he believed, than an English Rose.

There is an abiding fear Bonaparte will invade England by way of a tunnel beneath the Channel. How ingenious! Why, had such a marvellous thing been in place, the Tsar might have spend to Dover in an open barouche instead of enduring the mal de mer!

In London, Alexander knows, they like neither his sister nor himself. Society considers the Tsar silly and vain, a ballroom dancer with golden curls and a lorgnette up his sleeve, an aloof monarch who turns a deaf ear, as Napolean said of him at Erfurt, to anything he does not want to hear. In effect, when the Tsar turns an ear, it is only to favour the right, as he is quite deaf in the left. Yes, Alexander loves to dance, he is myopic, he turns a deaf ear. What of it?

Pero ya al día siguiente todo volvía a ser igual que siempre, porque a los visegradenses no les gusta recorfar lo malo ni preocuparse por adelantado; en la sangre llevan la certidumbre de que la buena vida se compone de treguas y de que sería alocado y absurdo enturbiar estas escasas treguas buscando una vida más firme y estable que no existe.

His kiss was like being on the back of a runaway horse, soaring over hills and galloping through streams and flying over logs in one spectacular jump after another, heart pounding and hair flying, breathless, exhilarated, and terrified.

There was an exciting atmosphere about the place that uplifted her. It was as if she could actually feel the accelerated steady pulse of the town's heart beating in time with her own.

«Lady Annabelle. È una settimana molto fortunata: vi incontro per due giorni di seguito.» Si intrattiene nel baciamano più del dovuto. Le sue labbra posano dei soffici baci sulle mie nocche, poi mi guarda sorridente e posa un nuovo bacio.